Publications
Northeastern Nigeria: Preventing relapse of acute malnutrition - Impact assessment on locally produced supplementary food, July 2024
08/2024
The protracted crisis in northeastern Nigeria has resulted in persistently high levels of acute malnutrition, with 1.5 million children under five years of age and over 200 000 pregnant and breastfeeding women acutely malnourished.
Somalia: Project Highlights - OSRO/SOM/211/USA
08/2024
The Government of the United States of America contributed USD 150 250 000 million to the FAO project, "Providing emergency life-saving food and livelihood support to drought-affected communities in Somalia", which was implemented from 4 May 2022 to 31 March 2024.
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Malawi: El Niño impact assessment highlights - August 2024
08/2024
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, the Malawi Vulnerability Assessment Committee, the World Food Programme and the Department of Disaster Management Affairs conducted an assessment to understand the impact of El Niño on agricultural production and livelihoods in ten districts – Balaka, Blantyre, Chikwawa, Chiradzulu, Dowa, Machinga, Mangochi, Nsanje, Phalombe and Thyolo.
Subregional East Africa: Project Highlights - OSRO/SFE/012/JPN
08/2024
The Government of Japan contributed USD 2 million to the FAO project, "Mitigating the impact of drought for the most vulnerable pastoral and agropastoral communities in Djibouti, Kenya and Uganda", which was implemented from 22 March 2023 to 21 March 2024.
Global: Project Highlights - GCP/GLO/997/NET
08/2024
The Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands contributed USD 28 million to the FAO project, "Food and Nutrition Security Resilience Programme (FNS-REPRO): Building food system resilience in protracted crises", which was implemented from 1 October 2019 to 31 March 2023.
Bangladesh: Cyclone Remal and northeastern floods – Urgent call for assistance
08/2024
On 26 May 2024, Cyclone Remal struck Bangladesh, unleashing severe floods and landslides across several districts.
Bangladesh: Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis Joint Response Plan 2024
08/2024
Nearly 1 million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar are entirely dependent on humanitarian aid to meet their basic food needs. In 2023, reduced food rations and devastating cyclones further compromised food security within the refugee camps, leading to a decline in refugees’ daily food consumption.
Zambia: Belgium's contribution through the Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities (SFERA)
07/2024
Zambia is experiencing a severe El Niño-induced drought that has resulted in reduced agricultural production, water scarcity and crop failure. So far, 1.8 million smallholder farmers have been significantly impacted.
Tajikistan: Project Highlights – OSRO/TAJ/200/GER
07/2024
The Government of Germany contributed USD 132 104 to enhance anticipatory emergency response capacity for improved food security of populations living in locust infested areas of Tajikistan and Afghanistan.
Ukraine: Project Highlights – OSRO/UKR/217/IRE
07/2024
The Government of Ireland contributed EUR 850 300 to protect the food security and livelihoods of 11 035 rural households (29 187 people) in conflict-affected oblasts in Ukraine.
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Ukraine: Project Highlights – OSRO/UKR/017/JPN
07/2024
The Goverment of Japan contributed USD 5 million to protect the food security and livelihoods in newly accessible war-affected areas in Ukraine, while laying the foundation for resilient agrifood systems.
Türkiye: Project Highlights – OSRO/TUR/007/JPN
07/2024
The Government of the Japan contributed USD 475 000 to improve the livelihoods and social recognition of Ukrainian and Afghan refugees in Türkiye by providing them and their host community members with employment and livelihood opportunities.
Yemen: Project Highlights – OSRO/YEM/051/JPN
07/2024
The Goverment of Japan contributed USD 600 000 to improve the livestock production and productivity of 750 vulnerable agropastoral households (5 250 people) in Yemen through the provision of livestock production packages and technical training.
Setting up a drought Anticipatory Action trigger mechanism
07/2024
An Anticipatory Action approach seeks to identify multiple windows of opportunity for action throughout the duration of predictable shocks, such as drought.
Egypt: Project Highlights - OSRO/EGY/100/USA
07/2024
The United States Agency for International Developed contributed USD 1 640 000 to FAO’s project entitled “Global Health Security Program for enhancing prevention, detection and response to emerging, re-emerging and endemic zoonoses and antimicrobial resistance threats in Egypt”.
Supporting the development of stronger animal health systems
07/2024
FAO ECTAD works to build the capacities of its Members to prevent, detect and respond to high-impact animal diseases and other health threats, which can severely harm livelihoods, food security and economies.
Iraq: Project Highlights - OSRO/IRQ/904/USA
07/2024
The United States Defense Threat Reduction Agency, through its Biological Threat Reduction Program, contributed USD 3 505 221 to strengthen central and regional veterinary services in six targeted governorates in Iraq (Anbar, Al-Muthanna, Basra, Duhok, Ninawa and Wasit) by building veterinary staff’s capacities to detect, diagnose and rapidly report highly pathogenic animal diseases and by providing equipment to veterinary laboratories.
Afghanistan: Project Highlights – OSRO/AFG/126/JPN
07/2024
The Government of Japan contributed USD 1 897 294 to improve the livelihoods and food security of 6 100 livestock-keeping households (44 417 people) in Afghanistan.
Yemen: Project Highlights – OSRO/YEM/107/KSC
07/2024
The Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia contributed USD 4.85 million to improve the livelihoods and food security of 24 030 farming and livestock-keeping households (180 990 people) in Al Dhale and Lahj governorates of Yemen.
Bangladesh: Belgium's contribution through the Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities (SFERA)
07/2024
Through the Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities, the Government of the Kingdom of Belgium contributed USD 500 000 to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to mitigate the adverse impacts of cyclone Remal on the livelihoods and food security of the most vulnerable farming households in the affected districts.